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<p>It can be good. It can be bad. It depends on the girls.
Yes. Or no. It depends on the girl.
Some girls can give you a meaningful relationship and are worth it. Others are a complete waste of time, immature, less than loyal, etc.</p>
<p>Go for it, but don’t fall into the trap of having a girlfriend so you stick with her for a long just for the sake of having a girlfriend. If it’s not working out well, break up with her and move on to the next one.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing. If you’re asking on CC whether having a girlfriend is good or bad for someone studying engineering, then I’d say the answer is that for you, it would be bad. Life doesn’t stop when you’re taking a difficult major in college, in fact, if you’re pursuing your interests, that usually makes you more interesting. You’re actually bringing positive life experiences to the relationship, as well as the likelyhood that you’ll be financially stable in the future (regardless of what Homer says). Lastly, the old saying that “If you want something done, give it to someone who’s busy”, is true because busy people get things done. They’re organized, and have more time for many things, including pursuing a relationship.</p>
<p>I would just like to say that “Girlfriend + Engineering Student” is often easier to arrange than “Girlfriend + Engineer” - in college you have exposure to lots of different people in different fields, as well as a plethora of extracurricular groups, which is a pretty good time to meet women. An engineering or manufacturing firm is often predominantly male, so men who are hoping to meet women at work may find a significant shortage, and no associated activities that would change the demographic.</p>
<p>I met my wife (a education major) in college, and know a few working engineers now who are just baffled as to how to meet women now that they are in the workforce. My old department was maybe 10% female, my current department is 0%, and meeting someone from the few departments with signficant numbers of women can be difficult.</p>
<p>“Engineering Student Guy + Engineering Student Gal” works very well, lol! In graduate school, there were two couples (including me and my boyfriend) who ended up marrying and starting our own firms. The great thing about it, even when I was home with little kids, was that when DH would come home after a hard day, I could empathize with him and make helpful suggestions.</p>
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<p>I actually think the Engineer + Teacher combo works better, as is cosmicfish’s situation (as well as mine, so I’m partial). I’ve been told that the engineer + teacher combo works because engineers value education and learning, as do teachers. Personally, I’d agree with this.</p>
<p>I’ve known engineering couples, and a lot of times they don’t work out, especially if in the same major. It may be an ego thing (as engineers seem to think they are always right), or it may be that if they are working on things together the stress of homework/classes builds more tension within the relationship. Individuals need their space… imagine working on homework assignments and studying for tests together! Yuck. Working together after graduation also can build a lot of tension, as I’m sure you are accustomed to.</p>
<p>The “engineering guy + engineering girl” thing would get old quickly for me. No variety.</p>
<p>I think “engineering guy + music girl/antho girl/English lit girl” would be more exciting.</p>
<p>I laugh every time someone asks this question. Engineers have dated through college for literally hundreds of years. I guess it just recently got harder or something.</p>
<p>Well, we’ve been married for over 24 years, so it worked out well for us. The other engineering couple we knew is also still married. We loved doing homework together, mixing concrete together, and we still love working together. I guess we’re weird! 
Oh, we also loved music (I almost majored in piano, and he was invited to study guitar at Segovia’s school in Spain), so we weren’t just science nerds.</p>
<p>I know lots of engineer-engineer couples, and they seem to work just fine! That I married outside my profession is more a reflection of statistics and timing - in college, active in extracurriculars, I was far more likely to meet a non-engineer woman than I was another engineer!</p>
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<p>Hear, hear! My (future) wife is a nurse.</p>
<p>What Purdue said. -.-
Why would anyone ask this sort of question? Do people think engineers are with 12 pairs of glasses and are antisocial? LOL</p>
<p>I’m an engineering girl + engineering guy and we’ve been together 3 years and are doing great. I like that the fact that he can empathize with me when I have so much school work and even help me sometimes when I have a hard problem to figure out.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it got harder after they invented “The Pill” and all women everywhere decided they didn’t want a nice guy with a future who would make a good provider and father but a bad boy with a motorcycle or a psycho with a guitar.</p>
<p>^ Oh no. I am the good father and husband type. I can neither motocrycle, nor play like a Beatles. But I do with violin (I can perform pizzicato instead!!!)</p>
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<p>Sadly, this is a pretty accurate statement. There is however a small fraction of women that are college-aged and are looking for the “nice guy with a future”.</p>
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In my experience, college is where most women start to realize that a motorcycle and edginess are not the best things to be looking for in a partner. I knew a lot of freshman girls eyeing the football players, but most of the senior women I knew were taking a longer view. The big problem was that most of them didn’t really start to do this until their senior year or so, and then decided to hold off on any serious relationships until they were out of school.</p>
<p>Sounds reasonable. I would not recommend anyone enter a “marriage track” relationship during college or 5 years after college. </p>
<p>Achieving a decent level of financial stabilty and maturity before becoming emotionally engaged is what intelligent people do.</p>